Rolex Studio Shot of the Day: Pre-Daytona Rolex

Ryan's Racy Daytona

[Reference 6265]

There is really something to that red, white, black and silver color combination. I never ceases to amaze me how timeless, masculine and elegant vintage Rolex watches are.

The All New Lexus LFA Supercar on Top Gear...

Rolex Coolness: Richard Hammond Top Gear Host
Richard Hammond is a host on BBC's Top Gear and we see him below sporting his Rolex Submariner.

Rolex Coolness & Hotness Marc Anthony & Jennifer Lopez...

Rolex Coolness & Hotness

Marc Anthony & Jennifer Lopez

Twin Rolex Day-Date II Models

This is kind of fascinating. Marc Anthony and J. Lo are married and have twins and they wear twin Rolex Day-Date II watches. J. Lo is also rockin a pretty sweet crocodile Hermès Birkin Bag.

Rolex Studio Shot of the Day: Nicolas Crazy Patina GMT Beauties

Nicolas' Crazy Patina GMT Beauties

I love these vintage Rolex GMT Master models from the late 1970s. High-Art if you ask me!!!!

Rolex Studio Shot of the Day: Great Grandfather with Great Grandson...

Great Grandfather with Great Grandson

Francesco Morino from Italy sent in this great photo of his Rolex DEEP-SEA next to his Rolex Oyster Perpetual.

Rolex Oyster Sport Junior from WorldOysterWatcher...

Rolex Oyster Sport Junior

from

WorldOysterWatcher

WorldOysterWatcher took this photo of his interesting Rolex Oyster Sport Junior which must have been a Rolex made for a boy. It is so fascinating how many unusual designs Rolex experimented with over the last century.

Quote Of The Day: Confucius on getting great advice...

Quote Of The Day

"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back."

–Confucius Proverb

Happy New Year Message From Jake...

Happy New Year!!!!!

I hope you all had a safe and fun New Years Eve. I sincerely hope 2010 is a great year for everybody!!! 2010 represents a milestone in the sense we are now entering a new decade and it is my fervent prayer that it is an excellent decade for the world we all share.

As I previously mentioned, we have some amazing Rolex history coming up for you in 2010. Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jake

Photo Credit: Reintitan

U2: New Years Day...

U2: New Years Day
I woke up this morning with this song playing in me head so I thought I would share it with you. It is hard to believe this song came out 27 years ago in 1983!?! Classic!!! Bono has been wearing Rolex watches for many years and you can see them by clicking the label under the video that says "BONO."

The Real History Of The Rolex SEA-DWELLER

The Complete History Of

The Rolex Submariner & SEA-DWELLER

Rolex's Conquest Of The Ocean

Part 10: The Birth Of The Rolex SEA-DWELLER: Bob Barth, Scott Carpenter & U.S. Navy SEALAB

U.S. Naval School Of DEEP-SEA Divers

2010 is going to be an amazing year for exploring Rolex history on Jake's Rolex Watch Blog. In just a few weeks we will be celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the U.S. Navy Bathyscaph Trieste which in 1960 went down 7 Miles into the Marianas Trench to set the all time depth record and it had a Rolex DEEP-SEA SPECIAL attached to its hull which took the ultimate licking and came up ticking.

History doesn't seem like history when you're living through it...

Where did the name "DEEP-SEA" Special come from? And for that matter where did the name "SEA-DWELLER" come from? I will give you a few hints. Let's start with the photo below of the U.S. Naval School Of DEEP-SEA Divers. The pioneering U.S. Navy Officer who developed the Rolex SEA-DWELLER with Rolex is in the photo below.

The Right Stuff

Conquering Outer & Inner Space

If you say you are not aware of this significant history, I would not be surprised. You won't find it in any Rolex history books. You might find a false attribution to COMEX in Rolex history books for co-developing the SEA-DWELLER, and we will learn the true history of COMEX from Henri-Germain Delauze who is the founder and CEO of COMEX to this day.

In this previously unpublished U.S. Navy photograph we see the first actual SEA-DWELLER's from operation SEALAB. When I share their story with you in early 2010 it will blow your mind and make you laugh and cry. It is a story of happenstance and destiny fulfilled. It is a story of amazing innovation and stunning achievement. It is the story of how technology developed to conquer inner-space allowed men to conquer outer-space.

The Rolex SEALAB Submariner

[Reference 5512]

In particular, we see U.S. Navy test pilot and NASA astronaut Scott Carpenter pictured above standing in the front row in the center wearing a suit. Scott was the first Astronaut/Aquanaut in history as he went from conquering outer-space as a member of the Original 7 Mercury NASA astronauts to conquering inner-space as a member of the U.S. Navy SEALAB program. Scott is pictured below during SEA-LAB II in 1965 wearing his Rolex SEA-LAB Submariner [Reference 5512].

The U.S. Navy SEA-LAB provided the ultimate proving-ground and test-bed for the Rolex Submariner tool watch. SEA-LAB pushed the Rolex Submariner watch models as they had never been pushed before into the deep, dark ocean.

SEA-LAB pushed far beyond the absolute DEEP-SEA edge of the Submariner depth envelope and ultimately to failure. SEA-LAB exploration took DEEP-SEA divers to previously unimagined and unprecedented depths and Rolex innovation responded voraciously by turning their ceiling into the new floor.

As we will learn in this upcoming story, the Rolex SEA-LAB Submariner is the real father of the Rolex SEA-DWELLER.

The Complete History Of

The Rolex Submariner & SEA-DWELLER

Rolex's Conquest Of The Ocean

Table Of Contents

• Chapter 1: Genesis

• Chapter 2: The Perpetual Oyster & The Mermaid

• Chapter 3: Panerai & The Italian Royal Navy (The First Rolex Diving Watch)

• Chapter 4: A Brief History Of Diving

• Chapter 5: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Emile Gagnan & The Aqua Lung

• Chapter 6: The Birth Of The Rolex Submariner: Breaking The Rolex Design Code

• Chapter 7: The Rolex Submariner Through Time: The Evolution Of The Rolex Revolution.

• Chapter 8: The Birth Of The Rolex DEEP-SEA: Jacques Piccard & Captain Don Walsh aboard the U.S. Navy Bathyscaph Trieste Set The All-Time World Depth Record.

• Chapter 9: The First SEA-DWELLER's: Doctor Bond. U.S. Navy Project Genesis and Jacques Cousteau & Project Conshelf.

• Chapter 10: The Birth Of The Rolex SEA-DWELLER: Bob Barth, Scott Carpenter & U.S. Navy SEA-LAB 

• NEXT >>> Chapter 11: Henri Delauze & COMEX

• Chapter 12: Dr. George Bass [The Father Of Underwater Archeology]

• Chapter 13: Dr. Sylvia Earle: The First Female Aquanaut

• Chapter 14: Dr. Phil Nuytten [Pioneering DEEP-SEA Explorer: The Real Aquaman]

• Chapter 15: Dr. Joe MacInnis: From U.S. Navy SEA-LAB to The Titanic Discovery Team

• Chapter 16: Dr. Robert Ballard: The Ultimate U.S. Navy DEEP-SEA Discovery Of The 20th Century–Finding The Titanic 

• Chapter 17: Ralph White [Explorer and National Geographic Cameraman] Discovering and Exploring The Titanic

• Chapter 18: The Return of The Rolex DEEP-SEA 

• Chapter 19: The Return of The Rolex Single SEA-DWELLER: 50th Anniversary Jubilee Model